Financial Analyst, German language skills essential

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🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Nextcloud

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

☁️ SaaS

🔐 Security

🏢 Enterprise

SaaS • Security • Enterprise

Nextcloud is an open-source content collaboration platform that offers a comprehensive suite of self-hosted cloud storage and productivity tools. It provides file sync and share services, groupware, real-time document collaboration, and video conferencing. The platform is a popular choice for enterprises, educational institutions, and the public sector seeking secure, compliant, and scalable solutions for data protection and remote work collaboration.

📋 Description

• Own and improve budgeting, forecasting, rolling forecasts, long-term planning, and data analysis • Build, maintain, and improve integrated financial models covering P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, liquidity, investment cases, sensitivities, and growth scenarios • Perform actual-vs-budget/forecast variance analysis, identify operational and financial drivers, challenge assumptions, and recommend corrective actions • Deliver monthly and quarterly management reporting, KPI dashboards, executive analyses, and materials for senior management • Maintain understanding of German HGB accounting and reporting principles and align management reporting, planning, and analysis with statutory accounting • Partner with Accounting during month-end, quarter-end, and year-end processes to ensure reliable financial data • Develop scalable FP&A processes, reporting structures, KPI frameworks, financial controls, and planning methodologies • Conduct ad-hoc financial analysis for pricing, cost optimization, investment decisions, organizational planning, and strategic initiatives • Establish and monitor financial and operational KPIs, including revenue, gross margin, OPEX, EBITDA, cash flow, working capital, and productivity • Support Finance function evolution through standardization, automation, internal controls, documentation, governance, and process improvement • Work closely with Accounting, Sales, and other functions to translate financial data into actionable goals and insights

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field • CFA, Bilanzbuchhalter, Controller qualification, or similar professional certification is helpful • Experience in FP&A, Controlling, Corporate Finance, Financial Analysis, or a comparable finance role • Strong practical knowledge of German HGB and experience working with financial statements and reporting in a German business environment • Strong understanding of P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, management accounting, budgeting, forecasting, working capital, and financial performance management • Advanced Excel skills, including complex financial modeling, sensitivity/scenario analysis, PivotTables etc. • Able to operate effectively in a scaling company, including improving processes that may initially be manual, fragmented, or insufficient for future organizational requirements • Strong analytical judgment and attention to detail • Able to identify the commercial implications behind the numbers • Able to communicate complex financial topics clearly and concisely • High degree of ownership, independence, and execution discipline; able to prioritize • German and English language skills are essential

🏖️ Benefits

• A distributed, open team with a passion for working on and within the open source community • Promoting and selling a product which pushes the boundaries of technology and with a global user and contributor community • A competitive salary • Flexibility for a healthy work-life balance • Time for personal growth and education • Opportunity to grow and learn